Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
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Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
Genesis
Law / MosesI will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryThey have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Matthew
GospelsBut Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Acts
History / LukeIn the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThis is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Exodus
LawAll this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Psalms
PoetryHe shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
Leviticus
LawAnd again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job
WisdomOf the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
Ezra
History / EzraThy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
Psalms
PoetryAnd it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.
Acts
HistoryAnd to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
Exodus
LawAs sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.